ON SOME NORTHERN SPANISH GEOMETRIDES. 285 



peninsula in the summer of the present year (1903). Of the localities 

 visited Dr. Chapman has already written (antea, pp. 122 et seq., and 

 pi. V, vi and vii) ; my part is merely to discuss the insects brought 

 away, although I am aided in so doing by two or three interesting 

 notes handed me by their captor. 



The greater part of the collection was made in the district of 

 Canales — 101 specimens (33 species) ; from Moncayo come 56 specimens 

 (31 species), or — including two from Agreda, a little town on the west 

 foot of Moncayo, about 2000ft. elevation — 58 specimens (32 species) ; 

 the rest are from Soria, 3 specimens (2 species), and Barbadillo, 5 

 specimens (3 species). Thus the total is 167 specimens, and there 

 were 47 difierent species represented. By a curious coincidence the 

 former figure agrees almost precisely with that for 1902 ; I recorded 

 (Eiit. Ilec, XV., p. 96) the Bejar, etc., collection as numbering 169 

 specimens, but these only comprised 31 species, as against 47 for 1903. 

 It may be that this difierence is really correlated to the totals for the 

 respective districts worked, or it may be that Dr. Chapman did more 

 this year in pinning " samples " of all the species observed, including 

 even the least striking ones; at any rate this year's collection contains 

 several single specimens of widely distributed European species, such 

 as " Larentia " ocellata, L., alternata, Miill. ( = sociata, Bkh.), hilineata, 

 L., etc. 



As would perhaps be expected from the geographical position, there 

 is a somewhat smaller proportion of characteristically Spanish species 

 than in the two preceding years; general central European things and 

 specialities of the Pyrenees are what we actually find chiefly in evidence. 

 In 1901, I had to deal with about 53 species (Cuenca, Tragacete, etc.), 

 16 of which occu.r in Britain, while 37 do not; in 1902 with 31 species 

 (Bejar, Piedrahita, etc.), 12 being British, 19 non-British ; this year 

 the numbers are 28 British, 19 non-British. 



The " families," in the convenient (if not unimpeachable) Meyrick- 

 Hampson system, which is now followed almost entirely in Staudinger's 

 Catalog, are represented as follows: — Geometridae {sens. str.),2 species; 

 Acidaliidae, 16 species; Lanntiidae, 13 species; OenocJiromidae, 2 

 species; Boarmiidac, 14 species; thus the Acidaliidae are not so con- 

 spicuously dominant as on previous occasions. 



As a small contribution to our knowledge of local faunae, it is 

 advisable to give a complete list of the species ; and I shall then add 

 notes on the most interesting of them. 



Canales, June 27th to July 9th :• — Phorodesma [L'oviibaena) pustu- 

 lata, Hfn., larva, Pseiidoterpna coronillaria, Hb., Acidalia {Cleto) 

 rittaria, Hb., A. luteolaria, Const., A. sericeata, Hb., A. rubii/inata, 

 Hfn., A. Diariiinejyunctata, Goeze, Zonosowa (Cyclophora) j^orata, L., 

 Wiodostrophia calabra, Pet., Ortholitha pliinibaria, Fb., Odezia atrata, 

 L., Chcsias siiartiata, Hrbst., Lar^wf/o ocellata, L., L. pectinataria, Knoch, 

 L. montanata, Schift'.. L. spadicearia, Schift". f ferriit/ata, Stgr. Cat.), L. 

 galiata, Schilf., L. alternata, Miill. {sociata, Bkh.), L. hilineata, L., 

 Eupithecia scopariata, Ramb., E. innotata, Hfn., Ellopia prosapiaria, 

 L., Venilia macularia, L., Boarviia [Cleorodes) liclienaria, Hfn., larva, 

 Pachycnewia hippocastanaria, L., GnopJios dilxcidaria, Hb., var. (?), 

 Fidonia famula, Esp., Eurranthis [Athroolopha) penni(jeraria, Hb., 

 Eniatiiiya atoviaria, L., Biipalus piniaria, L., Selidosewa taeniolaria, 

 Hb., Elnconista miniosaria, Dup., Heliothea discoidaria, Bdv. 



